Academy Award winner Michael Douglas flagged a comparability between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump as he defended the present commander-in-chief in opposition to assaults on his age.
Biden is 81, Douglas is 79 and Trump is 77.
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria famous in an interview with Douglas that broadcast on Sunday that he and Biden are “about the identical age.”
Zakaria then requested the “Franklin” star: “Are you a type of individuals who wished he [Biden] had bowed out and let the sector select any individual else?”
Biden is “as sharp a tack” and “positive,” Douglas mentioned he’s been instructed by all people he’s spoken to in regards to the problem.
“All of us have a difficulty with reminiscences as we become older, we neglect names, the actor acknowledged. “He’s overcome a stutter in his life and generally he may.”
Then got here the reminder about Trump.
“However let’s simply say that his whole cupboard, together with his vice chairman, all people in his cupboard can be more than pleased to work with him once more within the subsequent time period,” Douglas concluded. “I can’t say that in regards to the different candidate working as a result of no one in his cupboard from 2016 desires to be concerned with him.”
Douglas later known as the 2024 election “most likely a very powerful election of my lifetime.”
Watch the total interview right here: